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UK
/ˌʌndəhˈænd/
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ADJECTIVE
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marked by deception
achieved success in business only by underhand methods -
with hand brought forward and up from below shoulder level
an underhand pitch
an underhand stroke
ADVERB
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with the hand swung below shoulder level
throwing a ball underarm -
slyly and secretly
Mean revenge, committed underhand
oldline aristocratic diplomats underhandedly undermined the attempt...to align Germany with the Western democracies
How To Use underhand In A Sentence
- ‘No Clymer, I want you to try serving underhand,’ Mrs. Toth said, sounding exasperated.
- I feel the whole practice of gazumping completely unfair and underhand.
- It was of course the law of the place that they were never to take no notice, as Mr. Buckton said, whom they served; but this also never prevented, certainly on the same gentleman's own part, what he was fond of describing as the underhand game. In the Cage
- Campaigners for tenants' rights say that the number of unscrupulous letting agents exploiting tenants and landlords with underhand tactics has risen dramatically over the past two years. Times, Sunday Times
- A more transparent and honest way of charging would be preferable to the underhand and morally dubious system currently employed. Times, Sunday Times
- Could it be because they use exactly the same underhand tactics? The Sun
- It is willing to be underhand and devious. Times, Sunday Times
- He said: ‘I think it is underhanded and duplicitous and it is double standards.’
- Doug and I came up with a sneaky, underhanded and brilliant plan which kept us strong and under little pressure for the first three years.
- The head of Nato in Libya, Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard, said Col Gaddafi's forces had employed what he called underhand and immoral tactics in their seven-week drive to dislodge the rebels from the city. BBC News - Home